Indigenous Australians

# 41076

BOWDLER, Cath

Colour country : art from Roper River

Wagga Wagga, NSW : Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, 2009. Small square quarto (210 x 210 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers, 92 pp., illustrated in colour; price sticker lower wrapper, else an excellent copy. An appropriately dazzling little catalogue produced to accompany a travelling exhibition of Roper River art, shown at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery 5 June …

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# 40871

KRUGER, Johann Friedrich Carl (Fred), (1831-1888); [PERKINS, Horace]

Album of the kings & queens of Victoria

[Melbourne : compiled and published by H. Perkins & Co., The Gift Depot, c.1880]. Duodecimo, original cloth-backed faux tortoise-shell pattern papered boards with gilt stamped lettering and ornament, edges lightly rubbed, containing folding concertina of [12] panels with leporello reproductions of Kruger’s photographic portraits of surviving leaders of Aboriginal tribes of Victoria, originally taken at …

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# 40629

ALBRECHT, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1894-1984.

Albert Namatjira : native artist / by F.W. Albrecht. Superintendent of the Finke River Mission, Hermannsburg, Central Australia

[Hermannsburg, N.T. : Finke River Mission, 1950]. Octavo, wrappers illustrated front and back (very lightly creased), stapled, [7] pp. Scarce. Copies are recorded in six Australian collections (Australian Lutheran College; Flinders University Theological Library; National Library of Australia; National Museum of Australia Library; Macquarie University Library; Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory. Peter Spillett Library).

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# 40671

EVANS, Nicholas; MARTIN-CHEW, Louise; MEMMOTT, Paul

The heart of everything : the art and artists of Mornington & Bentinck Islands

Fitzroy, Vic. : McCulloch and McCulloch Australian Art Books (in association with Woomera Aboriginal Corporation. Mornington Island Arts & Craft), [2008].Quarto (275 x 210 mm), pictorial boards, 100 pp., colour and b/w illustrations, bibliography, map; a fine copy.

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# 40166

BRODY, Anne Marie et alia

Utopia : a picture story. 88 silk batiks from the Robert Holmes à Court Collection

Perth [W.A.] : Heytesbury Holdings Ltd. for the Robert Holmes a Court Collection, 1990. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, pp. 243, illustrated. The artists include: Nora Kemarre; Violet Petyarre; Jedda Kngwarreye; Patsy Kemarre; Marcia Pwerle; Kathleen Petyarre; Maggie Kemarre; Margaret Petyarre; Nancy Petyarre; Jean Pwerle; Maureen Kngwarreye; Rosemary Petyarre; Judith Kngwarreye; Dolly Petyarre; Jeannie Petyarre;Lyndsay Bird …

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# 40088

WEST, Margie (curator)

ReCoil: change & exchange in coiled fibre art : Artback Northern Territory Arts touring exhibition 2007.

Darwin, NT : Artback Northern Territory Arts Touring, 2007. Large quarto (275 x 225 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers, pp. ii, 107, colour illustrations throughout, map; foreword by Louise Partos; introduction by Louise Hamby; essays by Margie West, Thisbe Purich, plus a series of studies on individual fibre artists; a fine copy of a scholarly and …

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# 39758

AMERO, Constant

[QUEENSLAND; ABORIGINES; KELLY GANG] Les squatters et l’Australie nouvelle

Paris : Didot, [1894]. Octavo, red cloth with ornate black and gilt decoration, (rebacked, endpapers replaced), 108 pp, all edges gilt, illustrated. A very good copy. An account of contemporary life in the outback and regional centres of eastern Australia, which interweaves historical episodes into the narrative. It includes accounts of Chinese immigrants in Cooktown, …

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# 39194

HAYGARTH, Henry William.

Recollections of bush life in Australia, during a residence of eight years in the interior.

London : John Murray, 1861. New edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered purple pebbled cloth (spine faded), previous owner’s name to endpaper, lower hinge cracked, pp. vi; 162. Includes chapters on sheep and cattle farming, natural history, Aborigines and the white population. The first edition was published in 1848 (Ferguson 4789). Ferguson 10312

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# 39330

POIGNANT, Roslyn and POIGNANT, Axel

Encounter at Nagalarramba.

Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1996. Oblong quarto, pictorial stiff wrappers, endpaper map, pp 170, profusely illustrated with Axel Poignant’s superb black-and-white photographs; fine copy. An important anthropological study of an Arnhem Land indigenous group, being the account of Axel Poignant’s expedition to the Liverpool River in 1952.

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# 39176

CHADWICK, Ross; CRUTHERS, John; LANE, Carly

Spinifex : people of the sun and shadow

/ curators : Ross Chadwick, John Cruthers, Carly Lane. Bentley, W.A. : John Curtin Gallery, 2012. Quarto (275 x 230 mm), pictorial card covers with French flaps, photographic endpapers, 70 pp., colour illustrations; an excellent copy. Now very hard to find, this scholarly and well-illustrated catalogue was produced to accompany an exhibition of art by …

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# 39169

TWEEDIE, Penny

Aboriginal Australians : spirit of Arnhem Land. (Inscribed by Pat Corrigan for Colin Laverty)

Melbourne : New Holland Publishers, 2001. Large quarto (300 x 270 mm), pictorial card covers, 168 pp, colour photographic plates throughout, map; an excellent copy, the title page inscribed by Pat Corrigan for Dr. Colin Laverty – associating this copy with two of the most important collectors of Australian Indigenous art.

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# 39299

KLINGENDER, Tim; DAVIDSON, D'lan

Sotheby’s. Aboriginal and Oceanic Art. Melbourne, 26 & 27 July 2010

Melbourne : Sotheby’s Australia, 2010. Auction catalogue. Quarto (270 x 210 mm), illustrated stiff wrappers, pp 272, with 341 lots, all illustrated in colour, and index of artists; contains many paintings by contemporary Central and Western Desert artists; works by Albert Namatjira, Tommy McRae, and Brook Andrew; Arnhem Land barks; Tiwi sculptures, and traditional artefacts; …

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# 38916

HAMBY, Louise (editor)

Fibre art from Elcho Island. Catalogue of an Exhibition St. George campus, The University of New South Wales.

Sydney : School of Applied and Performing Arts, The University of New South Wales, 1994. Narrow quarto (295 x 170 mm), illustrated stiff wrappers, pp. [4], iii, 56; 19 b/w photographs, 18 coloured plates, 2 maps, catalogue of works; an excellent copy.

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# 38884

OPPENHEIM, Ilona

[HERMANNSBURG] Dear Mr Heinrich : Ntaria letters 1933-35.

Hermannsburg, N.T. : Ntaria School, 2002. Large quarto (295 x 210 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers, stapled; pp 60, b/w photographic illustrations; text in English and Western Arrarnta; a fine presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page for bibliophile and former Hermannsburg resident Charles Fletcher. Hermann Adolph Heinrich (1895-1959) arrived at the Hermannsburg …

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# 39435

KOORIE CULTURAL HERITAGE TRUST

Koorie

North Melbourne : Creative Solutions [for Koorie Cultural Heritage Trust], 1991. Quarto (295 x 210 mm), pictorial wrappers, pp. 58, [2], b/w photographic illustrations; some marginalia in pencil, but a very excellent copy. A good introduction to Koorie culture. Ex Dr. Colin and Liz Laverty.

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# 38721

ANNANDALE GALLERIES

Samuel Namunjdja : gungura : bark paintings, ceremonial poles

Sydney : Annandale Galleries, in association with Maningrida Arts & Culture, [2008]. Quarto (255 x 200 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers, 46, [1] pp., illustrated in colour; introduction by Bill Gregory; essentially two catalogues in one, as it includes an extensive section titled Spiral Wind, showcasing works by thirteen other Maningrida artists which were exhibited alongside Samuel …

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